Albert Camus quotes page 1

Born November 7, 1913, died January 4, 1960. Albert Camas was an award-winning
author, journalist, as well as philosopher and famous for winning the French Nobel Prize and writing some of the
most existential pieces of literature throughout the early part of the 1900s. Born in French Algeria, Albert
studied at the University of Algiers and was even starting as goalkeeper for his university football team until
tuberculosis cut his athletic career short almost instantly. During his time recovering from this disease he fell
in love with writing, recording the everyday goings-on of the people that he came into contact with, as well as a
deep love for philosophy and forward thinking. Even though he himself did not enjoy the title of "existentialist",
the global community (and specifically the French) had absolutely no trouble whatsoever attaching this title to him
– which quickly led to him being recognized as the global leader for this philosophical movement. It was in 1949
that Camas founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, a group designed
and formed specifically to denounce to ideologies found in the USSR as well as the USA as far as their viewpoints
towards technology were concerned. Probably most recognized for his essay "The Rebel", much of Albert Camus's
writings focused around his eclectic philosophy, existentialist style thinking, and a deep sense nihilism,
including deep forays into the world of individual and sexual freedoms. Passing away quite young in a motor vehicle
accident at just the age of 46 in France, Albert Camas has been recognized as one of the leading writers in the
early existentialist movement as well as a "founding father" of the absurdism writing style and philosophy. A
number of his works have been published posthumously (including "A Happy Death and The First Man"), which only
further helped to spread his ideas and his writings to new generations.

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that
all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must
lead to universal annihilation.Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.Albert Camus

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize
that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.Albert Camus

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.Albert Camus

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.Albert Camus

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky,
the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had
clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that
strangeness of the world is absurd.Albert Camus